United States presidential election, 1900

The United States presidential election, 1900 was held on 6 November 1900. The election saw the incumbent president and Republican Party nominee William McKinley and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt defeat the returning Democratic Party nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish-American War led to the re-election of McKinley with 292 electoral votes to the anti-imperialist and bimetallist Bryan's 155 votes.